The Flexible Brain: Why Risk and Impulse Are Not “One-Size-Fits-All”
Why do some individuals struggle with addiction or impulsivity while others do not? Why...
Category: Contemporary Case Studies
More Than a Tool: How Neanderthal “Crayons” Reveal an Ancient Artistic Mind
For more than a century, the Neanderthal has been our “brutish” ancestor, the dull,...
The 3,000-Kilometer Journey: How a Crimean Fossil Is Rewriting the Neanderthal World
The popular image of the Neanderthal is one of a brutish, primitive creature, confined...
The Skeleton’s Secret: How a New Test Can Reveal Ancient Pregnancies
The human skeleton is a remarkable archive. For an archaeologist, it’s a diary written...
The 90-Degree Twist: How Two Tiny Genetic Tweaks Reshaped Our Hips and Made Us Human
The moment our ancestors stood up and walked on two legs was arguably the...
The Ghost in the Machine, Reversed: How Technology Becomes Our Body
“A good tool is an invisible tool.” So wrote the computer scientist Mark Weiser....
Anxiety on the Move: Ethnographic Dispatches From the Unfulfilled Dream of Gorkhaland
How do we live with a political dream deferred, year after year, decade after...
Mothering AI, The Adivasi Way: Can Indigenous Knowledge Decolonize Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial intelligence is often presented as a neutral, objective, and universal technology, a disembodied...
The Sacred Heartbeat at Houston Pride: Danza Azteca as Embodied Resistance
Amidst the rainbow flags, glitter, and disco beats of the Houston Pride Parade, a...
Happy Hour in the Jungle? How Chimps’ Taste for Boozy Fruit Explains Our Own
Why do humans have such a strong, and often dangerous, attraction to alcohol? Is...